Posts by tnangel73

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What are you doing tonight/weekend?

by KW13 in

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tonight i am going to be driving down to st. helens (not far from liverpool) with an aunt to drop off her car at a friends garage and then coming back with her, fortunately her friend is lending her a car otherwise we'd be stuck there lol.. saturday i am going to a bon-fire with family minus mum and stepdad (don't get me wrong i wish they were there).. sunday - no idea.... .

tnangel73

Nothing. Probably should clean.

And as of yet, no plans for tomorrow either.

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Do tattoos hurt?

by coolhandluke in

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yes they do and i'm looking forward to it.

i tracked down the guy who started some work on my back and i'm going to finish part of it this weekend.

the tat started as a take on ying and yang and the idea that things come full circle.

tnangel73

For me, getting the tattoo wasn't that bad. The itching the days afterwards is what bugged me. I have sensitive skin. It was like the kind of itch when your skin has been sunburned. And no I didn't scratch it, I didn't want to mess up the ink.

Piercings are fun, too.

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chocolate or cherry pie?

by IP_SEC in

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i took a break from my cooking adventures for a while but want to get back at it.. which one should i try to make next?

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got any good recipes?.

tnangel73

My family has this "traditional family secret" recipe for no-bake cherry cheese cake. It's usually on the back of the philly cheese box. It's better with extra lemon juice.

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what song best describes your sex life

by karter in

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sound of silence.. as my wife is a j.w all along the watchtower!

!.

tnangel73

Hello darkness, my old friend,
Ive come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of
A neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one deared
Disturb the sound of silence.

Fools said i,you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisperd in the sounds of silence.

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Crocs and assisted suicide attempts

by RisingEagle in

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they are the shoes that everyone loves to hate.

they are also the shoes that have fans that will disregard what others in this world say about them in regards to fashion and taste.

if you wear and love them, you just don't care, your feet are happy and that's all that matters.

tnangel73

I was thinking, "surely not 'the shoes' Crocs," then I read. I have 3 pairs. My podiatrist (sp?) also sells them but I did not know that until I after I started going to her. Anyway, I love them but I have returned to wearing athletic shoes when I am not working. I wear steel toe shoes at work. I wish they made steel toe crocs...

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STOP THE MADNESS....where is this board going?

by SnakesInTheTower in

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i've only posted since feb 07..but i have lurked for several years prior and there was usually something interesting on the board.

as i was reading the active topics list this morning, only a couple things jumped out at me as interesting...its been this way since the dgate and tgate incidents.... i was discussing this with a long time poster via im yesterday....does it seem to anyone else that so many of the topics are ...i dont know....odd...or different than they used to be...and i dont mean that in a good way.. i miss the newbies coming on and telling us their stories.... i miss the long time posters updating us on their lives post-borg... i guess with the recent uproar, the lurkers are hesitant to become newbies (cant say as i blame them now...we probably scared them off , and maybe the vets are just as hesitant...after all, someone went 2 years with their fraud/hoax...who will believe anyone else now?

i hope this is just a temporary cycle on this board..i have read many many posts from the archives...i hope one day soon we can get back to a happy medium here.. by the way, i like the fluff threads, but these seem to be more and more sex related (maybe that word will wake someone)... yet they get all the attention....and then someone goes too far and it gets locked down by a mod and the poster restricted......(i am not a prude...just sometimes enough is enough).

tnangel73

I can't believe I missed the sex threads... :/ LOL

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Catfish eats two JWs, almost gets two more

by TJ - iAmCleared2Land in

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from http://www.maconareaonline.com/news.asp?id=18798.

don't try to convert me, please by: lewis grizzardtues oct 23, 2007 9:05 am edt.

macon,ga.- religious freedom is a wonderful thing.

tnangel73

Grizzard is a funny guy

Make that was. I remember when he died. "A Great American."

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water to wine---trick revealed

by tula in

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an ethnobotanist in santa cruz, california, thinks jesus was munching magic mushrooms at the last supper.

clark heinrich says man has enjoyed the psychedelic effects of mushrooms since thousands of years before christ -- and figured the king of kings probably turned on as well.

in fact, he thinks jesus was high on a psychedelic 'shroom known as "fly agaric" which was hailed for its taste as well as its trips.

tnangel73

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Why I dont go along with the "happiness" crowd

by Junction-Guy in

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the old saying "happiness is the best revenge", to me that is the most rubbing statement i can ever hear right now.. .

someone mentioned that jw's dont think anyone can have true happiness outside of their religion, i dont necessarily buy this.. .

when someone is happy inside the borg, they say its jehovah's blessing, when someone is happy outside the borg they say that satan is blessing them.

tnangel73

Apoligies that I got off topic.

JD- changling had said

"Our feelings come from our thoughts. Happy thoughts=happy feelings. It really is that simple."

My point was that there are also outside contributers that affect our emotions. I guess I have reached a conundrum. Yes, I did over-simplify things, also. Happy thoughts just don't take away one's problems.

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Why I dont go along with the "happiness" crowd

by Junction-Guy in

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the old saying "happiness is the best revenge", to me that is the most rubbing statement i can ever hear right now.. .

someone mentioned that jw's dont think anyone can have true happiness outside of their religion, i dont necessarily buy this.. .

when someone is happy inside the borg, they say its jehovah's blessing, when someone is happy outside the borg they say that satan is blessing them.

tnangel73

OK, so let me get this straight... If I had a shitty childhood as a witness (and trust me, I did), I should then spend the rest of my free life going around feeling sad in order to rub my sadness in my parent's face.. This will somehow "prove" to them that they hurt me.
I'm sorry, I choose not to that. I choose to be happy and welcome each and every day with open arms.
You and you alone have the power to make yourself happy or miserable. This is a fact. You can allow external factors to color your mood or not. Our feelings come from our thoughts. Happy thoughts=happy feelings. It really is that simple.
You have no control over what other people do, you do have control over how you feel.
You might want to check out this book: Feeling Good by Dr. David Burns.
You CAN be happy. Make the choice.

I am not picking at you, seriously, but that is pretty simplified.

I wish it were all that simple.

And I do for the most part think positively most of the time.

BUT (you had to know that was coming )

Thinking happy thoughts is not going to take the cancer away from my Mother. It's not going to take away my Father's ahlzeimer's disease.

It doesn't take away the financial strain on me that they didn't save anything for their retirement because "this old world" was going to end soon.

And a lot of other problems that I am not going to bother to list.

Wallowing in the misery isn't the answer, but just "putting on a happy face," isn't feasable in some situations.

I have been pretty pissed off the last year. But it's mostly because I've let myself be that way. I won't be this way forever, but right now I am.

When I was a dub everything was about suppressing your emotions and putting on that fake witnoid smile.

Sorry for the semi-rant.